That the results are achieved with you still able to type and still saying nice things about Krissy says all that and then some. Confirmed by the con badges still being decoratively draped, and not summarily subjected to “neat” standards and/or exile. :-)

She did it. My definition of “clean” and hers are two entirely separate things, and me doing it would involve getting to my level, and then just moving stuff around in the hope that some random configuration of objects would satisfy her. Which it never would.

Somebody has earned a big bunch of flowers. Not flowers from the neighbors garden either. From an actual florist. The best thing about women is the fact that they put up with us men. PS Did she just shake her head when she found out you shared that photo with the masses?

That picture (well, the combination of the before and after) just made me exclaim to my best friend and office mate (the same person — yes, I am that lucky), “I NEEEEEEED John Scalzi’s wife!!!” That got me a weird look, I can tell you. Anyway, you are a lucky man, Mr. Scalzi. And you happen to be willing to lend Krissy out, I pay nicely in cookies and cake.

I envy your wife’s organizational abilities. I would kill to be able to make my room look like that. It seems like a large volume of stuff is just plain missing, though. Did she throw it out, find another place for it, or vaporize it into thin air?

I bow down before Krissy. I can clean and organize, but I’ve got nothing on those mad skilz. Plus, you should have taken “during” shots as we did a couple years ago when we helped my Dad clean his office at work.

Just out of curiosity, were you allowed in the room while she was working?

I am proud of myself for correctly guessing the answers to 3 of the 4 questions that you answered in post #6. (I failed on the cant find it / don’t need it theory).

Can we play some more? If so, then:

A) Is that a baseball on top o’ the computer? Autographed by someone or caught at a MLB game or sumthin?

#2) almost everything showing in the after picture was already there, just underneath the other stuff that is now absent. Did all that other stuff get scrambled into individual molecules a la Mike TV and miniaturized into the desk drawer?

3) With Chris Hawley’s question (#36): is that M on the carpet a reflection from the throne? OR, tiny carpet crop circles created by some of the more mischievous of the molecules who escaped?

Ok, lurkers and commentors, how many of us opened a 2nd browser window to put the two pics side by side? Highlights For Kids magazine trained us for this excercise. Luckily, John was nice enough to take the 2nd photo from very close to the same exact angle. Thanks for that, John.

Who knows what ARE those two white things, possibly in plastic bags, on the right edge of the before pic (almost halfway up the right side o the photo)???

#48 Juan Herrera said:
]Ok, lurkers and commentors, how many of us opened a 2nd
]browser window to put the two pics side by side?
xv (image viewer/enhancer), both for B/A comparison and to clarify the cover of book atop ToBeRead stack.

]Who knows what ARE those two white things, possibly in plastic ]bags, on the right edge of the before pic (almost halfway up the
]right side o the photo)???*stumped* *fx type="music" tune="Jeopardy theme"*
*scribbles* */fx*What are facesabsent from Mt. Rushmore of S. Clemens & D. Webster?*fx type="sound" name="audience-groan"/*

Seriously, they do look like face sculptures, especially after histogram correction is applied. And, unless my eyes are completely shot, there are three variant frames of The Sexiest Picture Ever Taken stuffed into the picture frame/noteboard in the lower right corner.

May the new year – 2008 Edition, brought to you by BaconCat™ – be Scalzirific for all of you!

Wow. You were so disorganized that you kept buying multiple copies of the same book! Nice of her to stack all those up for you, although she might have asked why it is you keep purchasing copies of that one with the sky-blue cover. Yeesh.